Metapronorites

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PronoritinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Prolecanitida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 307 Mya to 293.52 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 315.2 Mya to 290.1 Mya.
38 occurrences of Metapronorites on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
38 occurrences- Carboniferous61%
- Permian39%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
11 formations
- Hare Fiord Formation16
- Bazardarian Formation6
- Uyamanoro Formation3
- Canyon Fiord Formation2
- Nandan Formation2
- Atahoc Formation1
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The named rock units Metapronorites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Metapronorites and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Metapronorites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
174 taxa- Phaneroceras lenticulare9 sites
- Almites multisulcatus7 sites
- Bisatoceras kotti6 sites
- Diaboloceras involutum6 sites
- Eoasianites grandis6 sites
- Martoceras modestum6 sites
- Pseudopronorites arkansiensis6 sites
- Agathiceras vulgatum5 sites
- Cardiella vetusta5 sites
- Eoasianites smithwickensis5 sites
- Clistoceras globosum4 sites
- Eoasianites stenus4 sites
- Neogastrioceras arcticum4 sites
- Prothalassoceras solitum4 sites
- Svetlanoceras notium4 sites
- Syngastrioceras4 sites
- Agathiceras3 sites
- Agathiceras sequaxilirae3 sites
- Boesites3 sites
- Christioceras trifurcatum3 sites
- Diaboloceras neumeieri3 sites
- Emilites prosperus3 sites
- Eoasianites subhanieli3 sites
- Glaphyrites3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Metapronorites, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
12 references- Carboniferous ammonoids and stratigraphy in the Canadian Arctic archipelago18
- Asselian ammonoids in the Pamirs6
- Permian basinal ammonoid sequence in Nanpanjiang area of South China - possible overlap between basinal Guadalupian and platform-based Lopingian2
- Early Permian (Asselian) ammonoids from the Taishaku Limestone, Akiyoshi Belt, southwest Japan2
- The Carboniferous-Permian boundary and ammonoids from the Aidaralash section, southern Urals2
- Andrianov, 19852
- Early Asselian (earliest Permian) ammonoids from the Taishaku Limestone, Akiyoshi Belt, Southwest Japan: an Asselian ammonoid fauna of the Mid-Panthalassan Realm1
- Orthoconic cephalopods from the Lower Permian Atahoc Formation in East Timor1
- First discovery of Asselian ammonoid fauna in China1
- The Pennsylvanian Ammonoid Family Welleritidae1
- Verkhnekammenouglo'nye Ammonity Urala1
- Upper Paleozoic ammonites in Texas1
Each of the 38 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Metapronorites
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Metapronorites was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPronoritinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Librovitch 1938